Artist notes: The light is just starting to hang itself on the tips of the tall fir branches outside our windows when I rise. I quickly grind the dark whole beans while the water is boiling and brew coffee to take with me to the beach at Reef Bay. Slipping unnoticed out the door, I am there by 5:30 am, perched and waiting to receive a renewable gift of resilience, hope and possibility in that spectacular phenomena, millions of years older than humanity - sunrise, mid May 2023.
And before you consider this a lighthearted naivety, this painting was inspired by a few lines from Mary Oliver’s Goldfinches in her poem “Invitation”…
believe us, they say,
it is a serious thing
just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.
- Subject Matter: landscape
- Created: January 01, 2024
- Inventory Number: TW1629O
- Collections: Earth, Sea and Sky, Mayne Island Landscapes Small and Large, Paintings of the Salish Sea, West Coast landscapes paintings